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    I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda, a charming collection of short stories which focus on the ups and downs of everyday life in France. Gavalda’s lively writing style brings each story and its characters to life, and the sparks of romance and love stories scattered throughout the collection are sure to delight any fan of romance fiction. Anna Gavalda is a bestselling French author whose novels have been translated into numerous languages, and a number of them have also been adapted for the cinema.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateJun 20, 2018
    ISBN9782808009768
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      I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      French writer

      Born in Boulogne-Billancourt (France) in 1970.

      Notable works:

      Someone I Loved (2002), novel

      95 Pounds of Hope (2002), novel

      Hunting and Gathering (2004), novel

      Anna Gavalda grew up in the region of Eure-et-Loir in northern France, and holds a Master’s degree in Literature from the Sorbonne University in Paris. She is divorced with two children, and has had a varied career over the years, working as a French teacher, a veterinary assistant and a magazine columnist at various intervals. In 1992, she won the France Inter Competion for Most Beautiful Love Letter, and then started trying to get her work published after also winning a number of short story contests. Her first published work was a short story collection titled I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere, which was first released in 1999 and won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire. This was just the beginning of a highly successful writing career that has even led to two of her novels (Someone I Loved, 2002, and Hunting and Gathering, 2004) being adapted into films.

      The struggles of everyday life

      Genre: short story collection

      Reference edition: Gavalda, A. (2003)

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